Given: A 62 km² drainage basin in the Boreal region on northwestern Canada has three major cover types, each with contrasting snow cover properties. Table 1: The major cover types, the percentage of the basin area that they occupy and their snow cover properties. Cover Type Conifer Forest Wetland Lakes % Area 60 30 10 ds (cm) 79 38 26 P (kg/m³) 158 190 205 SWE (mm) 124.8 72.2 53.3 Days to melt Question 1: a) Calculate SWE for each land cover type. b) Calculate the areally-weighted SWE for the basin. c)Explain how depth and density can change even in the absence of snowmelt and additional snowfall. Question 2: Considering latent heat of fusion is 334 J/g, and assuming the daily total melt energy (Qm) is 2.311 MJ/m2, estimate the number of days required to completely melt the snow.

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